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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017 Oct 26;4(4)
fx238. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx238. eCollection 2017 Fall.
[h=1]Rapid Influenza Testing in an Austere Setting, Mongolia.[/h] Maisetseg C[SUP]1[/SUP], Ulziimaa D[SUP]1[/SUP], Sack A[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP], Battsetseg G[SUP]1[/SUP], Bekh-Ochir B[SUP]4[/SUP], Yondon M[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Gray GC[SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] In 2015-2017, we helped rural Mongolian clinicians with poor infrastructure adopt rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs). In their hands, the Quidel Sofia Influenza A Test was both sensitive (75%) and specific (100%). If made widely available, such RIDTs would have the potential to markedly reduce influenza morbidity and mortality in Mongolia.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Mongolia; RIDT; influenza
PMID: 29255734 PMCID: PMC5730932 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx238
fx238. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx238. eCollection 2017 Fall.[h=1]Rapid Influenza Testing in an Austere Setting, Mongolia.[/h] Maisetseg C[SUP]1[/SUP], Ulziimaa D[SUP]1[/SUP], Sack A[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP], Battsetseg G[SUP]1[/SUP], Bekh-Ochir B[SUP]4[/SUP], Yondon M[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Gray GC[SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] In 2015-2017, we helped rural Mongolian clinicians with poor infrastructure adopt rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs). In their hands, the Quidel Sofia Influenza A Test was both sensitive (75%) and specific (100%). If made widely available, such RIDTs would have the potential to markedly reduce influenza morbidity and mortality in Mongolia.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Mongolia; RIDT; influenza
PMID: 29255734 PMCID: PMC5730932 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx238